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Obama’s Middle Eastern Opportunities
In this week’s piece at Souciant, I start taking a look at what Barack Obama’s second term may look like in terms of Middle East policy now that Mitt Romney has bungled himself into a position where he...
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Mideast Peace Talks Get New Lease on Life
My report for Inter Press Service on the renewal of peace talks between Israel and the PLO.Filed under: Peace Plans Tagged: AIPAC, Americans for Peace Now, Benjamin Netanyahu, Bill Clinton, Camp David...
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Image of Hate
The photo you see to the left was found by Jewish Voice for Peace on the Facebook page (since removed) of a group that named itself “Hating Arabs Isn’t revenge–it’s values.” Hashtag reads Israel...
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The Peace Process Is Dead: Thanks, Obama
As the curtain drops on 2017, it drops too on the Israeli-Palestinian peace process as we have known it. At the age of 24, that process has finally died, with none other than President Donald Trump...
View ArticleBook Review: “Mythologies Without End: The U.S., Israel, and the Arab-Israeli...
Published today at Responsible Statecraft is my review of Prof Jerome Slater’s new book, Mythologies Without End: The U.S., Israel, and the Arab-Israeli Conflict, 1917-2020. Slater goes through a huge...
View Article2023: A turning point for Palestine in global politics
2023 has been an eventful year in Palestine. Unfortunately, “eventful in Palestine” generally means bloody, and there is no doubt that this has been a particularly bloody year. Yet there has been more...
View ArticleHow Democrats learned to defend Israel’s ethnocracy
For a very long time, the United States worked diligently to stay away from the tense debate over Israel’s ability to be both a Jewish and democratic state. Even as Palestinians cried out about their...
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